There are other
equally valid reasons, of course, to vote for President Obama on November 6,
but these five are at the top of my list. Each, taken separately, strikes me as
persuasive. Together I find them compelling.

Hurricane Sandy reminds us of a
basic truth: Disaster relief and preparedness matter. In times of great crisis,
it is critical that we have a strong national response to help provide a
lifeline to affected states.

At no time this
year did Mitt denounce Republican employers who threatened their workers if
President Obama is re-elected or condemn repeated Republican legislative
attempts to suppress Democratic votes.

It's not just homeowners anymore. Big borrowing and zero oversight has left
students drowning in debt

In 1945, the United States
had literally half the world's wealth, incredible security, controlled the
entire Western Hemisphere, both oceans, the
opposite sides of both oceans. There's nothing-there hasn't ever been anything
like that in history.

If you believe that poverty is the domain of the comfortably
poor, black, unemployed, unmotivated and uneducated among us, you have been
sadly misled. Prepare to be astonished by numbers that tell a very different
story.

To organize an effective opposition to the impending
austerity offensive; agitate to shift the burden of the economic depression
onto Wall Street oligarchs; and to build momentum toward a genuine political
revolution of, by and for the people. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32869.htm
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80 top CEOs tell Obama, Romney to slash social
spending: The chief executives of 80 large US corporations have issued a
"Deficit Manifesto," calling on the next president to "fix
America's debt" by making substantial "changes in the federal
budget." The statement was published by the Wall Street Journal on
Thursday.http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/oct2012/ceos-o26.shtml 34

Missouri
Political Donor Thrives With No Limits

COLUMBIA, Mo.
— When the first $150,000 check showed up in his campaign account, Shane
Schoeller was locked in a tight Republican primary for the unheralded office of
Missouri
secretary of state, battling two fellow lawmakers with virtually identical
platforms.

We live in a Police State : Video - Dhoruba Al-Mujahid Bin-Wahad addresses the importance of recognizing that
we live in a police state and that we need to decentralize public safety of
public safety. Also that we need community control of our communities.http://is.gd/PpMpt0 38

Capitol Hill’s Rabid, Ravaging Republicans

Has there ever been a more crazed, cruel, anti-people, corporate-indentured,
militaristic and monetized Republican Party in its 154-year history? An
about-to-be-released list of some of the actual brutish votes by the House
Republicans, led by Speaker John Boehner and Rep. Eric Cantor, will soon be
available to you from the House Democratic Caucus. http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/26-5
39

Monsanto's Lies and the GMO Labeling Battle

Mr. Miller is the
primary face and voice of the “No on Prop 37” campaign in California. At this very moment,
Monsanto and other pesticide companies are spending more than $1 million a day
to convince California
voters that it’s not in their best interest to know whether the food they eat
is genetically engineered. And Henry I. Miller is their guy. http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/23-9
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Solutions Worth Debating

Let's start with
an issue that Obama and Romney won't address -- the violent and thieving
corporate crime wave that has swept the country and drained the hard-earned
savings, health and safety of millions of people, with little to no law
enforcement.

Helping Republicans Find Real Voter Fraud in America

Republican officials across the country are having a major
problem with their widely ballyhooed claim that they must create new barriers
to voting in order to ensure the "integrity" of the ballot. The
problem is this: Their high-decibel effort is completely devoid of integrity.

Bernie Sanders
Calls Out CEO Tax Dodgers over Deficit, Hypocrisy

Senator Bernie
Sanders called out a group of the top US CEOs Thursday in a
new report revealing top corporate tax dodgers in the US and urged those
dodgers to 'look in the mirror' for the causes of America's ballooning
deficit.'The last thing we need to do is listen to these deficit increasing
CEOs'

If You Succumb to Cynicism, The Regressives Win it All by Robert Reich

Your cynicism is
understandable. But cynicism is a self-fulfilling prophesy. If you succumb to
it, the regressives who want to take this nation back to the 19th century win
it all. The Koch brothers, Karl Rove, the rabid Republican right, CEOs and Wall
Street titans who want to entrench their privileges and tax advantages – all of
them would like nothing better than for every progressive in America to throw
in the towel. http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/26-12
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Transforming Our Energy System: Making Progress, Much More Needs to Be Done

Romney supports
continuing the massive $113 billion in federal subsidies for oil, gas and coal
over the next 10 years. He has previously referred to sustainable energy as
"imaginary." If elected, Romney is promising an end to key federal
policies supporting sustainable energy like the production tax credit for wind.

First Commercial Tar Sands Project in U.S. Approved: A Utah water quality board approved the first
commercial tar sands project in the U.S.
Wednesday, opening a largely undeveloped area in Utah's eastern desert to production next
year.http://is.gd/29rHyo 60

Texas
Keystone Pipeline Critics Resist Use of Eminent Domain: Several appeals have been filed by Texas
landowners trying to resist the efforts of pipeline company TransCanada to use
a local law to force reluctant landowners to permit construction of a southern
extension of the line from Cushing, Oklahoma to Nederland,
Texas.http://is.gd/lXoTn4 61

Five Ways Deregulation Is Ripping America Apart

Conservatives believe that enriching individuals will eventually enrich
society, and that government should not get in the way of the process. This is
what happens as a result:http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/15
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Will E-Voting Machines Owned by His Buddies Give Mitt Romney the White
House?

The False Promises of “School Choice”

For more than twenty years, supporters of vouchers for private schools have
had a chance to prove their assertion that the marketplace and parental choice
are the bedrocks of educational success, that unions and government bureaucracy
are the enemies of reform, and that vouchers will lead to increased academic
achievement.http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/13-0
84

Death By Ideology: Yes, Mitt, Lack of Insurance Does Kill People

Mitt Romney doesn’t see dead people. But that’s only because he doesn’t want
to see them; if he did, he’d have to acknowledge the ugly reality of what will
happen if he and Paul Ryan get their way on health care.http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/15-1
85

Romney’s Seven Biggest Debate Lies

Perhaps the most famous moment to come out of Tuesday night’s presidential
town-hall style debate in Hempstead, New York, was when moderator Candy Crowley
fact-checked Mitt Romney on the spot on Libya. (Video here). U.S. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney answers a
question as he debates President Barack Obama during the second U.S. presidential campaign debate in Hempstead, New
York, October 16, 2012. (REUTERS/Lucas Jackson)
But that isn’t the only time the Republican candidate said something
completely false—it was perhaps just the most obvious. Here are the seven
biggest lies Romney told:http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/17
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End Polluter Welfare

The Big Energy industries (oil, coal and gas) along with their political
allies like Mitt Romney are waging war against sustainable energy and the need
to transform our energy system and reverse global warming. In many instances
they are aided and abetted by the very powerful nuclear power industry.http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/16-1
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Meet Romney’s Economic Hit Man

Mark the name of R. Glenn Hubbard, the man who will make your life miserable
if Mitt Romney is elected president. Unless, that is, you happen to be one of
the swindlers who has profited mightily from the nation’s economic pain.http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/19-0
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New Jersey
Becomes Ninth State to Back Constitutional Amendment to Overturn Citizens
United

- Common Dreams staff

New Jersey
became the ninth state to back a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens
United on Thursday.
The state assembly signed
the resolution Thursday afternoon that "Expresses strong opposition to
U.S. Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. Federal Elections
Commission; calls upon Congress to propose amending U.S.
Constitution."http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/10/18-7
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'Global Noise' Against Austerity Sweeps Cities Worldwide

Day of action against policies hurting the global 99%

Saying "we will not be silent" against austerity measures,
thousands took to the streets across the world to join in a "Global
Noise" pot banging protest march on Saturday.
From New York to Buenos
Aires, Helsinki to Melbourne, the global 99% brought a loud
message against the world's corporate elite.http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/10/14
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Civil society groups Wednesday are slamming the European
Commission's continued insistence that privatization of municipal water systems
be a condition for receiving rescue funds, a plan the groups describe as
"economically, socially and democratically flawed."

Hurricane Sandy reminds us of a
basic truth: Disaster relief and preparedness matter. In times of great crisis,
it is critical that we have a strong national response to help provide a
lifeline to affected states.

These companies and their allies in the junk food industry know that
their profit margins may suffer if consumers have a choice whether to purchase
genetically engineered foods or not. And that's why opponents are
spending nearly a million dollars per day trying to make Prop 37 complicated.
But really it's simple - we have the right to know what's in our food.

About Me

Right To Share Food
At Right To Share Food, we believe that sharing food with our brothers and sisters is a fundamental human right. We believe that sharing food is a constitutionally protected activity, guaranteed under the freedom of association clause of the first amendment of The Constitution of the United States of America. We believe that sharing food outside and in public is an equally protected activity. Our goal is to promote cooperation among people in order to exercise and defend this right.
Hello; let me introduce myself. My name is Michael Hubman. I am the founder and the facilitator of Right To Share Food. Since 2007 I have been lobbying on behalf of the human and civil rights of homeless people. I operate Watercorps, a charity that gives bulk drinking water to the homeless people living on the streets of Skid Row Los Angeles.
Conflict occurs when government, most often municipalities, attempt to effect social engineering by restricting or forbidding the sharing of food on public property, the commons and even private property.
Michael “Waterman” Hubman
http://righttosharefood.org